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Seeing the bear charge (Starke), Slaine decides he'll soften up the other bear that is emerging from the overgrowth. He runs over and takes up soft cover behind the shrubbery. Durn blasted varmint. We jus tryin' teh get inter the house!
As he runs up, Slaine takes heed of Wu-Tang's sage advice and keeps his eyes peeled for any other causes of the carnage.
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Starke barrels forward toward the bear, as Diluvious and Slaine rush up as well. Slaine gets off a musket shot, hitting the bear in the side as it approaches. Archibald moves up and gets in position to use his powerful magic once the bear is in range. Sure enough it charges at Starke, and Archibald hits it with his acid attack just as it arrives. The bear tries to make a snack of Starke.
Starke thinks the bear is being friendly and pats it on it's nose just as the bite is about to land, his hard pat knocks the attack off target.
Round 1
Bear 13 dmg
Lucky
Wu-Tang
Round 2
Diluvious
Slaine
Starke
Archibald
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Holmes, after walking around in a daze suddenly comes to his senses:
oh dear me! I must have missed something I... he suddenly notices the bear and stops dead in his tracks. reaching for his sword cane, Holmes braces himself for combat. Then abruptly he relaxes his grip on the pommel of the cane and leans against the wall next to himself. the current chance of winning is at least 9 out of 10, and any form of physical contribution from myself is excessive and unnecessary. Holmes moves his hand from his cane to his pocket watch and begins to minutely and mythodically clean the outside to a shine.
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Lucky accesses the abilities of his fellow Pathfinders and those of the bear and decides shinning his watch is the right course of action.
Wu-Tang moves into attack position, as Diluvious takes aim and but his pistol misfires.
Misfires: If the natural result of your attack roll falls within a firearm's misfire value, that shot misses, even if you would have otherwise hit the target. When a firearm misfires, it gains the broken condition. While it has the broken condition, it suffers the normal disadvantages that broken weapons do, and its misfire value increases by 4 unless the wielder has gun training in the particular type of firearm. In that case, the misfire value increases by 2 instead of 4.
If an early firearm with the broken condition misfires again, it explodes. When a nonmagical firearm explodes, the weapon is destroyed.
Gunsmithing
You know the secrets of repairing and restoring firearms.
Benefit: If you have access to a gunsmith's kit, you can create and restore firearms, craft bullets, and mix black powder for all types of firearms. You do not need to make a Craft check to create firearms and ammunition or to restore firearms.
Restoring a Broken Firearm: Each day, with an hour's worth of work, you can use this feat to repair a single firearm with the broken condition. You can take time during a rest period to restore a broken firearm with this feat.
Special: If you are a gunslinger, this feat grants the following additional benefit. You can use this feat to repair and restore your initial, battered weapon. It costs 300 gp and 1 day of work to upgrade it to a masterwork firearm of its type.
Slaine takes aim and Blammo! Drops the bear. Saving Starke an uncomfortable hug.
Bear 21 dmg - dead
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Still need to check out that outbuilding! Lucky could you take a peak in there just to make sure nothing alive will be sneaking up on us from behind? Maybe Archie could help you. What do you guys think?...Archie, I think you might have missed and dumfounded Starke...can you reverse it?
I'll move over and check out the bear, Diluvious, you mind covering me while I check out the bear? Nice shooting Slaine!
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Nah, I think 'o Dil's got his piece covered by his self. Slaine turns to Diluvious. Happ'ns to th' best of us, boy. Ye got yer quick clear to fix yer iron. Yer sure teh git it next go 'round. I seen yer aim, an it were true.
Slaine will keep an eye on the surrounding area, primarily the main doors to the house and the area where the bear came from. He casually reloads his gun, taking out the unused alchemical paper cartridge and loading with standard bullet and powder.
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As Wu-Tang begins to organize the search and Diluvious begins assembling his tools for his gun repair. The bear you thought dead seems to let out a final gasp of air that startles everyone, you turn to look and suddenly see a ghostly figure rise from its form. The figure is a scowling Tian-Shu man wearing ceremonial armor and holding a longbladed sword. This spirit gestures with his sword at you all, as if waving you to leave, before dissipating.
After making a through search of the outbuilding and finding it in decay and unoccupied, and waiting on the needed equipment repair you are now ready to decide if you will enter the estate after what you have seen.
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With repairs made, you take Wu-Tangs advice and move into the eastern door. Most of the estate’s interior is simply a malodorous ruin bearing the hallmarks of having been a bear’s den for years. The rooms are scattered with shattered porcelain, ruined furniture, and torn remnants of banners and flags whose meanings have long since been consigned to history. You carefully search the east wing and find nothing of note. Reaching the main hall, a tattered rug adorns the floor of this short, forlorn hall. Pieces of a broken weapon rack lie on the floor in front of a statue of a stern Tian-Shu man wearing ceremonial armor and holding a long-bladed sword above his head. Doors lead out of this hall to courtyard to the north, and another leads to the west.
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Sensing a trap or another spiritual possession, Slaine darts over to take a covering position opposite the statue. His eyes squint as he studies the armor for any signs that it is more than it seems.
After ensuring nothing is awry, without changing his gun's sights on the stature, he shifts his gaze quickly to Starke and Lucky, almost imperceptibly jerks his head towards the stature, then resumes his targeting stare at the stature and surrounding rubble.
Under his breath, he mumbles to himself, Behtween th' two o them, I spect they kin either smash it or figure it out.
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I can do detect magic at will so will check the statue and the weapon rack and anything else that looks funny. I'll briefly see if the sword in the statue comes loose from the statues hands. I also assume we checked the weapon rack on the floor for any useful weapons. If all that is ok then I guess I'll do a perception check on the door leading into the western area.
If nothing obvious on the door, I'll open it and take a peek into the western room.
I once heard of a fearful monster called a beholder....wonder what it would be like to meet one of those..??...
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Wu-tang detects magic around picking up no magic auras. Nothing useful to be found and the sword is part of the statue. You form up to move forward and as Wu-tang begins to open the door. The statue seems to momentarily animate. It snarls, points its sword at the Wu-tang, and releases a gout of fire from its mouth.
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Beyond the door is a hallway which seems in a better state of repair than the rest of the house.
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Wu-tang notices another statue this time of a regal looking women in Tian dress. Sending Starke ahead to investigate nothing happens, it appears to be just a statue; in the rooms to the north you find various furnishing all ravaged from time. However, the door to the south is surprisingly sound and locked to boot, it's quiet as can be behind the door.
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Feeling a bit cramped and not generally liking close quarters, Slaine moves into the north room and takes up a defensive position by the far door.
Do'n like sittin' like fish in no barrel. I'll look see at this other room an' let you sneak types git that door. If'n need be, I kin shoot the lock if'n ye need it. Meanwhiles, I'll have me a look over yonder.
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Starke burst down the door, in stark contrast to the decaying ruin of the rest of the manor, this combination of bedroom and office is almost pristine save for a thick layer of dust. One wall contains shelves bearing books and scrolls, and another wall is covered with an enormous map of central Tian Xia. On the desk lay several sheets of thick paper, their script indecipherable under ages of dust.